it looks like there's a deal on taxes. the president has said that taxes will go up on the wealthy. he holds the trump card in that and nothing gets done that will happen. >> well, you know, jonathan, it's funny you say that the republicans may be recognizing they don't have the leverage here but trying to assert some leverage by saying that they'll do another sort of debt ceiling showdown and not satisfied with the outcome this month, the debt ceiling probably a month later, early february and saying they want to have another showdown if necessary over that. the official position of the white house is we're not going down that road again. we are not going to be negotiating and hostage games over this. however, there was a report on friday from ezra klein saying that this is not anything they're talking about publicly but the conversation within the white house is about the idea of giving in to republicans on raising the eligibility age for medicare, raising that two years in exchange for a partial increase on the top marginal tax rate to 37% instead of 39.6% obama is asking for. th